Shaft-buckle for harness



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SHAFT BUCKLE FORHARNESS. No. 802,701. I Patented July 29, 1884.

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FELIX A. BENNETT, OF FEATHER, INDIANA.

SHAFT-BUCKLE FOR HARNESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,701fdated July 29, 1884-.

Application filed December 17, 1883,. (Nb model.)

all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FELIX .A. BENNETT, of Prather, in the county of Clark and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Shaft-Bucklefor Harnesses, of Which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

. My invention consists of an improved shaftbuckle for single harness contrived to be hitched in the trace and buckled around the shafts in a manner to provide simpler and more substantial means for connecting the shafts, traces, back-strap, and belly-band than is affordedby other means new in use, all as hereinafter fully described. f

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a section of one of the shafts of a one-horse vehicle and an end elevation of my improved buckle applied to it. Fig. 2 is an inside elevation of the buckle and a portion of the shaft, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of the buckle on the line mat of Fig. 1.

I'make a wide ring or band of metal in two half parts, a b, with a hinge-joint, c, to clasp or buckle around the shaft cZ, and having flanges d 6 extending from the upper and free ends, to be fastened together by a sliding loop,

0 f, with which I provide a spring-hook, f, to

hold the loop on. The part Z), which is the inside of the ring or band, I construct with one loop, 9, by which the trace is to be connected, and anotherloop,h, to which the breaststrap portion of the trace is to be connected, and to the lower side of this part b, I have a loop, 2', formed for connecting the belly-band, and the top flange, e, is also made to tern1inate in a loop, j, for the back-band. The part b is also constructed with a hole, k, through it to connect with a stud, Z, of a wear-plate, m, which I lit into the inner side of the shaft for about half its circumference, and extending along the shaft about as far as' it may be de sired to shift the buckle forward orbackward I along the shaft for large or small horses, and having two or more studs, Z, to receive the buckle and hold it in proper position. The shaft is recessed to the depth of the thickness of the plate m, to let it in flush with the sur: face of the shaft, and to hold the plate against the thrusts of the traces and prevent it from slipping on the shaft.

claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

sisting of the jointed ring a I), having traceloops 9 h, stud-pin hole It, and the fasteningflanges (Z c, substantially as described.

2. The improved metallic shaftbuckle, consisting of the jointed ring a 12, having traceloops 9 h, stud-pin hole 70, belly-band loop 2', fastening-flanges d e, and the back-band loop j, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the loop-slide f and spring-hook f, with the improved shaftbuckle, consisting of the jointed ring a b, having the trace-loops g h, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the stud-plate m, having one or more studs, Z, with the shaft-buckle a b and with the shaft d, substantially as described.

FELIX A. BENNETT. Witnesses:

JOHN W. SEAMSTER, Tnos. W. PERRY.

I propose to make this improved shaft-' 1. The improved metallic shaft-buckle, con- 

